Dumping-wagon



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No. 335,614. Patented Feb. 9, 1886.

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DUNIPING-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,614, dated February9, 1886.

Application filed August 24, i885. Serial No. 175,234. (No model.)

To all whoml it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMrsoN H. NOTT, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Holland, in the county of Erie and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dumping-Wagons, ofwhich the following isa specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to divide the bottom so as-to dump partof the load in one place and part in another, and so on.

The invention will be understood by reference to the followingdescription and claims:

In the drawings, Figure lis atop plan showing the bottom and itsdivisions; Fig. 2, a side elevation Fig. 3, a side elevation in verticaloross'sectiou; Fig. 4, a detail of stirrup attached to side board; Fig.5, a detail showing part of bottom, cross-piece, and hinge.

A represents the side-boards setting on the two bolsters a a and heldinplace by the usual loops on the posts b b. K

B B are two cross-bars under the bottom, the ends resting in metalstirrups c c, fastened to the sideboards.

O C O C are four separate pieces forming the wagon-bottom in connectionwith a single center board, O', extending the whole length and settingbetween the boards. (See Fig. l.) The inner ends of the bottom'pieces,G, meet in the center ofthe wagon, and rest on adumping-bar, D, settingacross and under the bottoms, its ends extending out from thesides A andresting in metal stirrups d d, which are much wider than the bar, asshown. At the other ends the bottom pieces rest on the bol-y sters a a.

The position of the cross-bars B, which are under the boards C, isnearerthe center of the wagon than the ends of said wagon, so that when theboards are let down they will not only drop inward, but when the load isdumped will return to their original position, the other ends being theheaviest.

Each board is connected to the cross bar beneath it by a kind of hinge,made by cutting a mortise in the (upper part of) bar, rounding it, asshown at f, Fig. 5, and passing around it a metal clip, g, the endsofthe clip fastened in the bottom C. This rounding part f permits thebottom to turn easily, and when the dumping-bar is all pulled out all thboards drop.

It is often undesirable to drop a whole loadsuch as manure, &c.-all atonce, and to drop or spread the load in different spots I make thedumping-bar D a double-pivot bar by having a pin or vertical bolt, p,attached tothe side-boards, the end of each bolt setting into acorresponding hole, h, in the top of the end of the dumpingbar D. Whenthis bolt is pulled upon one side only of the wagon and the bar D pushedto one side in the stirrup d, but one board O drops. Pushing the bar theother` way (on same side) another board C drops. rlhen returning ittothe center and putting the bolt p in its hole this side will act as apivot. By drawing out boltp on the opposite side and pushing the barfirst one way and then the other the whole load is divided into fourdumps. Allthis is done without expenditure of strength or trouble bymerely pulling out a bolt, p, and pushing a bar, the bottom piecesreturning to their level when cleared.

The whole can be easily lifted off the bolsters and posts b b and setaway when the running-gear is desired for other uses.

The long center piece, O, is to keep manure, Ste., from lodging on thereach beneath. It is merely turned over to one side when the four bottompieces havebeen dropped.

I do not claim, broadly, hinged bottoms in a dumping-wagon divided inthe middle or a bar, as such are old.

l claim-n l. In a dumping-wagon, the hinged bottom pieces, O G O O,meeting inthe center, incombination with the dumping-bar D, the wideside stirrups, d d, the pivot pins or boltspp, and hole h in bar D, allarranged and operating substantially as specified.

2. In a dumping-wagon, the combination of the four bottom pieces, thecentral piece, C', the two cross-bars B B, hinged to the bottoms C, theends resting in side clips, c c, the double-pivoted dumping-bar D, thestil-rups d d, bolt-s p p, and sideboards A A, all substantially as andfor the purpose specied.

`SAMPSON H. NOTT.

Witnesses GHAUNCEY WHrroHEn, CHARLES WAGNER.

